How To Make A Ceramic Leaf Bowl

The longest part was waiting for the mod podge to dry.

How to make a ceramic leaf bowl.

Air dry clay is very sticky and doesn t come up easily. Doing this now will make it easier when it s time to transfer your clay leaf to a bowl. Place your leaf on the glue then mod podge over it again. Paint mod podge onto a leaf and press the leaf onto the bowl.

Using your brush brush some mod podge on the saran wrap about the shape of your first leaf. Using a small knife trim away excess clay. Pull up the clay and leaf before moving to step 3 and then lay them down again on your work surface. If you are wanting to customize this diy leaf bowl there are a few things you could do.

Use caution so that the leaf does not shift. Roll out the clay to approximately inch thickness. A cabbage plant in my garden motivated me to do the. Use small sharp scissors to trim the leaf edge pattern.

Lay the leaf vein side down on top of the rolled clay. Use your hands and the rolling pin to gently flatten the leaf against the clay. Use a bowl inside of a balloon for your base this will allow you to make a bigger leaf bowl. Cover your bowl with a layer of cling film and then paste all over the cling film with a layer of slightly watered down pva glue also known as school glue or white glue.

As you layer and press the leaves onto each other excess mod podge will squeeze out. Use a large leaf with heavy veining. This diy leaf bowl was very simple to make and didn t take much time at all. Repeat with various leaves overlapping the leaves as you go.

You ll be building your leaf bowl on the outside of your real bowl. Find a bowl the right size for your leaves i used a deep round soup bowl for this one and an egg cup for the project you can see at the end of the article. Use different size balloon. If your leaves have a softer colored underside be sure to place the colorful side down facing the bowl.

I am sure that for centuries people interested in ceramics have thought about pressing leaves into clay. Using the rolling pin press the leaf into the clay.